The men and machines of Britain's RAF Bomber Command waged a bloody war of attrition against the urban and industrial centers of Hitler's Third Reich . . .
Facing the ravages of marauding night fighters and freezing temperatures that adhered flesh to metal, and coated their lumbering bombers in thick sheets of ice, thousands of young British and Commonwealth airmen met violent ends above the cities they reduced to blazing ruins.
Of the 125,000 airmen who flew with Bomber Command, more than 55,000 perished in Britain's struggle to take the conflict to the enemy . . .
Amidst the carnage and destruction of the Second World War, Bomber Command's efforts to wreck Germany from end to end would emerge as one of the deadliest and most protracted campaigns of the war. Although the bomber offensive was just one facet of Britain's war effort, it has emerged as the nation's most controversial.
To this day, the veterans of Bomber Command remain without a campaign medal, while post-war critics equate their actions with those of war criminals. The Killing Skies shows that not only was the bomber offensive necessary for Britain's survival, it also played a vital role in the ultimate Allied victory.
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